Decorations register · Notice Nearby
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Sharon Ann Lane
1943–1969
First Lieutenant (Army Nurse Corps)
U.S. Army; 312th Evacuation Hospital, Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam (ICU / Vietnamese Ward); killed in 122mm rocket attack 8 Jun 1969
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
VA #VeteranOfTheDay (12 May 2019) names a Purple Heart. Do not invent an oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
with Valor (VA #VeteranOfTheDay: “Bronze Star with Valor”)
VA #VeteranOfTheDay states a Bronze Star with Valor. Record the “V” as named; do not invent oak-leaf counts.
Public sources
Sharon Ann Lane’s Bronze Star with Valor and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of her Army Nurse Corps service at Chu Lai. This decorations page records those two types from that VA list. It will not invent oak-leaf counts the paragraph does not carry.
Born 7 July 1943 and educated as a nurse in Canton, Ohio, Lane enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps Reserve in April 1968, served at Fitzsimons General Hospital, and arrived at the 312th Evacuation Hospital on 29 April 1969. On 8 June 1969 a Viet Cong rocket salvo struck the hospital; she was one of two people killed and is remembered as the only American servicewoman killed in Vietnam as a direct result of enemy fire. She is buried at Sunset Hills Burial Park in Canton. The Bronze Star with Valor and Purple Heart are the published decoration names here.
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